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[alienesb]

Will there be info on buy back or upgrade programs to the new ASICs?

Good question

Hi, we do not have plans to offer upgrade programs between different hardware manufactures. If we do offer upgrades it will be within the same product lines (ie. Gridseed to Gridseed)

Thank you for the questions, GAW

Can you take this opportunity to explain:
"Price Protection
Equipment buy back"

For instance, are you offering to buy equipment back at a certain price, then resell it labeled as "used"?

I assume the "price protection" is just if something drops in price overnight, and the people that bought the day before get some sort of discount?  How does the "price protection" work?
Thanks.

+1 I'd also like to know how these services work. Thanks

When gridseed came out with the blades, GAW bought back the 10 packs from our customers and allowed customers to pay the difference to upgrade to the blades.

Price protection would prevent the price from dropping drastically within a small period of time. Unfortunately, we need the manufacturer participation for this to work. While Gridseed has given us a verb agreement they will not do this again, we have nothing in writing from them.  

This is one of the reasons we made our own hardware, so we have more control over the cost.

I hope this answers some of your questions

Well I wonder if you know how the people that bought blades and waited more than a week to get them online feel; I'd say slightly fuct when the same day we see them go live you announce much cheaper versions.

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[rob1313]

Will there be info on buy back or upgrade programs to the new ASICs?

Good question

Hi, we do not have plans to offer upgrade programs between different hardware manufactures. If we do offer upgrades it will be within the same product lines (ie. Gridseed to Gridseed)

Thank you for the questions, GAW

Can you take this opportunity to explain:
"Price Protection
Equipment buy back"

For instance, are you offering to buy equipment back at a certain price, then resell it labeled as "used"?

I assume the "price protection" is just if something drops in price overnight, and the people that bought the day before get some sort of discount?  How does the "price protection" work?
Thanks.

+1 I'd also like to know how these services work. Thanks

When gridseed came out with the blades, GAW bought back the 10 packs from our customers and allowed customers to pay the difference to upgrade to the blades.

Price protection would prevent the price from dropping drastically within a small period of time. Unfortunately, we need the manufacturer participation for this to work. While Gridseed has given us a verb agreement they will not do this again, we have nothing in writing from them.  

This is one of the reasons we made our own hardware, so we have more control over the cost.

I hope this answers some of your questions

Well I wonder if you know how the people that bought blades and waited more than a week to get them online feel; I'd say slightly fuct when the same day we see them go live you announce much cheaper versions.

ya but those people who order then might have to wait a week before they get them also. not always the case but you never know.

[EnJoyThis]

I would also like to know if I can 'trade-in' my blade and put some more money on the table to buy one of the GAW-miners.

Let me know as I would like to have my order in during the founders-members time frame.

Cheers

[AgoraLive]

Will these be included in the UI, and have possibility of primary/backup pools?

[drmosh]

Will your software also be able to control Gridseeds in the same Raspberry?  So I can connect both to the Pi?

[GAW Miners]

Will these be included in the UI, and have possibility of primary/backup pools?

Yes, these will be managed by the same UI

[mufa23]

Can you provide some info on the warranty for the new miners like the War Machine?

They will a carry a one year warranty!

Is that for hosted units as well? Also, will the cost of hosting ever go up for Founders Club or normal? I'd assume after a few years the power costs will be more than what the unit generates in profits.

[Halofire]

GAW Website Misinformation:
Falcons state they use 640 watts in the written description, not 480 as in the image and everywhere else it's advertised.
Widows state they use 320 Watts, not 240.
Fury state they use 30, not 15
War machine state they use 1280, not 960.
May 26 is Memorial Day, can't ship on this day here in the states.

[volder]

Just ordered my War Machine from GAW. I needed to split pay for the order via Bitcoin and PayPal (even threw in a little store credit, because I had some). All in all the process was quite painless and instructions to complete the order were simple and accurate. Can't wait to get it up and running.

[GAW Miners]

Hi, the week one batch it now open to the general public. Most miners are close to being sold out, or are close to it. Happy mining!

[jimlite]

You guys have the same picture for like every miner.
Does the fury need a ethernet, or just usb to computer with internet?
Please put picture of fury and it's power supply.
I assume it doesn't need pi.

[GAW Miners]

You guys have the same picture for like every miner.
Does the fury need a ethernet, or just usb to computer with internet?
Please put picture of fury and it's power supply.
I assume it doesn't need pi.

Photos of each unit are going up shortly

[RaitR]

You guys have the same picture for like every miner.
Does the fury need a ethernet, or just usb to computer with internet?
Please put picture of fury and it's power supply.
I assume it doesn't need pi.

Photos of each unit are going up shortly

What are the sizes tho? Pocketsized is a lil vague.
And also free shipping? Does that mean i have to pay toll taxes once their in EU and i wanna get my package from post office?

[Billsonl]

sorry, never mind.  just call customer service and my issues are fixed.  thanks

[arbitrage001]

G-glade hash rate fluctuate wildly and going down a few times a day.

[x8008]

G-glade hash rate fluctuate wildly and going down a few times a day.

yes I get this issue a lot as well, please fix this especially for those who rent out on leaserigs

[Billsonl]

G-glade hash rate fluctuate wildly and going down a few times a day.

yeah, i notice that too (my reboots itself a few times a day).  I just spoke to customer service as one of my blade is off-line.  They said it reboots itself as a precaution by the miner if there are too many errors.  

[aumusxou]

G-glade hash rate fluctuate wildly and going down a few times a day.

yes I get this issue a lot as well, please fix this especially for those who rent out on leaserigs

Using worker difficulty 16, 32 and 64 make the blade very unstable (too many errors force reboot apparently).  The blades are much more stable with something like 1024 difficulty.  I think the problem lies with pools that don't allow you to set the miner difficulty, or don't use VARDIFF properly.  So set a higher worker difficulty, or use a good pool with VARDIFF.

If it were possible to change the error tolerance for reboot, that would be great.  I don't know if that's hard-programmed into the controller, or if GAW can allow us to set a limit.  There seems to be something with the blade that causes errors and reboots when getting lots of small work very fast, versus less, higher-difficulty work.

Power issues:(?)
There have been several times when my blades will get stuck in a reboot loop, even at higher work difficulties.  I've emailed support, and they say, "It was a power issue", and usually the blade comes back online, apparently after they tweaked something.  Other times, 1/2 of the blade is down, while the other half is just fine.  Rebooting only makes that good half come back up again, while the other half is still down.  This happens often.  Eventually (hours), the other half comes back up.

Not sure if GAW has fully implemented their "revamping of the blade's power delivery for all effected blades", or if it is just selectively done.  I'm guessing all of the blades suffer from lack of proper available power, and that GAW hasn't updated the power delivery for every blade- just those that people have complained about. This guess is from the observation that others also are still having issues, and that I get 1/2 of blades that won't come back up after reboots, or blades that won't reboot.

It's possible this is due to poor blade design, or the controller.  It would be nice to know that GAW has upgraded the power delivery for EVERY blade, so that this can be ruled out, and not just for "those blades effected by a power delivery issue".   I think I still may have power delivery issues on some of my blades, manifested as reboot loops, or half the blade staying stuck.

Anyone else seeing the "1/2 stuck blades", or infinite reboot loops?

[x8008]

My blade disappeared from the UI.. after I changed the pool on it and rebooted it

[burner2014]

G-glade hash rate fluctuate wildly and going down a few times a day.

yes I get this issue a lot as well, please fix this especially for those who rent out on leaserigs

Using worker difficulty 16, 32 and 64 make the blade very unstable (too many errors force reboot apparently).  The blades are much more stable with something like 1024 difficulty.  I think the problem lies with pools that don't allow you to set the miner difficulty, or don't use VARDIFF properly.  So set a higher worker difficulty, or use a good pool with VARDIFF.

If it were possible to change the error tolerance for reboot, that would be great.  I don't know if that's hard-programmed into the controller, or if GAW can allow us to set a limit.  There seems to be something with the blade that causes errors and reboots when getting lots of small work very fast, versus less, higher-difficulty work.

Power issues:(?)
There have been several times when my blades will get stuck in a reboot loop, even at higher work difficulties.  I've emailed support, and they say, "It was a power issue", and usually the blade comes back online, apparently after they tweaked something.  Other times, 1/2 of the blade is down, while the other half is just fine.  Rebooting only makes that good half come back up again, while the other half is still down.  This happens often.  Eventually (hours), the other half comes back up.

Not sure if GAW has fully implemented their "revamping of the blade's power delivery for all effected blades", or if it is just selectively done.  I'm guessing all of the blades suffer from lack of proper available power, and that GAW hasn't updated the power delivery for every blade- just those that people have complained about. This guess is from the observation that others also are still having issues, and that I get 1/2 of blades that won't come back up after reboots, or blades that won't reboot.

It's possible this is due to poor blade design, or the controller.  It would be nice to know that GAW has upgraded the power delivery for EVERY blade, so that this can be ruled out, and not just for "those blades effected by a power delivery issue".   I think I still may have power delivery issues on some of my blades, manifested as reboot loops, or half the blade staying stuck.

Anyone else seeing the "1/2 stuck blades", or infinite reboot loops?

100% Agree. See the same issues in my UI. From support I heard they are working hard on the issues. A statement today would be great the LOOP of Restarting is a real problem cause it takes sometimes 1-2 hours.